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| Bringing JPEG 2000 into the GeoWeb
| JPEG 2000 (JP2) is quickly becoming an accepted file format for storing large amounts of remotely sensed geospatial imagery. How can we integrate the format's capabilities into our newest geospatial networks - namely, the GeoWeb? | | | Urban Planning with Panache
| | For those of us who feel that plans are best laid by others, there is a whole host of professional planners at our disposal to sort us out. Most of these professionals deal in the short term: a wedding, a conference, a party for which attention to detail is paramount. | | | Making Connections at Geoweb 2006
| | If some of the latest technology and application developments showcased at the recent GeoWeb 2006 conference are any indication of how our spatial world will look in the near future, then geospatial imagery and tools stand to become as ubiquitous as the Web itself. | | | A Sinking Reality
| | For many people, reading or hearing that a particular region is sinking 6 millimeters, 8 mm or even 29 mm a year would probably not resonate much concern. Put those same numbers in the context of New Orleans, however, and you'll probably see more than a few raised eyebrows. | | | Iceberg, Right Ahead
| | Humans' innate curiosity and fascination with what lurks within the natural environment around them and beyond them has launched a healthy voyeuristic market of "tours" -- whale watching tours, safari tours, exotic bird tours, mountain gorilla tours. | | | Google Earth's Power of Place
| | Few can dispute that Google Earth has validated the power of place for millions of people across the globe and made them true believers in digital mapping. | |  MORE ARTICLES
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| Merrick & Company Names New VP and CFO
| | Merrick & Company has announced the promotion of Christopher Sherr to the position of vice president, corporate services, and of Mark Henline to the position of chief financial officer and corporate treasurer. | | | DMCii Launches Free Satellite Imaging Initiative
| | Satellite imaging provider DMCii has announced that it will provide free DMC constellation satellite imagery for scientists to support global environmental monitoring projects. | | | Intermap Technologies Launches Online Store for NEXTMap Data
| | Intermap Technologies has introduced an online data store, NEXTMap TerrainOnDemand, which provides access to the company's library of 3D digital elevation models, orthorectified radar images, contours, and optimized TIN models. | | | Oklahoma Natural Gas Selects ITT for Pipeline Mapping, Leak Detection
| | Oklahoma Natural Gas has awarded ITT Corporation a three-year contract for its Airborne Natural Gas Emission Lidar (ANGEL) Services. The contract is for pipeline corridor mapping that includes new geospatial services (structure identification, pipeline class location analysis, and high consequence area calculations), along with traditional aerial photography and pipeline leak detection services. | | | Image Web Server 2009 Available for Linux, Sun Solaris
| | ERDAS has expanded the availability of its Image Web Server 2009, announcing versions available for Linux and Sun Solaris operating systems. | | | Former Leica Geo Chief Recognizes CyArk Preservation Mission
| | Former Leica Geosystems CEO Hans Hess, now managing director of consulting firm Hanesco, has committed funds to support CyArk's efforts to digitally preserve five hundred world heritage sites. | | | SSTL Praises U.K. Support for ESA's GMES, ARTES
| | The United Kingdom's space industry stands to benefit from the country's support for Europe's Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) program and the technology development program ARTES, according to Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL). | | | RapidEye Satellite Images Make Their Debut
| | RapidEye has unveiled a public image gallery on its corporate Web site featuring high-resolution satellite images taken by its constellation of five spacecraft. | | | Aerial Services Makes First ADS80 Digital Sensor Purchase
| | Aerial Services Inc. has become the first U.S. geospatial company to purchase the ADS80 Airborne Digital Sensor, which contains Leica Geosystems' third-generation line sensor technology. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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| Gloom or Growth?
| | What impact is the economic downturn having on satellite and aerial data providers? | | | Can High-Resolution Imagery Resolve the Ararat Mystery?
| | What is the snow-covered, boat-like shape on Mt. Ararat? The question could finally be answered by the latest generation of commercial satellites ? and unsupervised hierarchical segmentation analysis. | | | A Grounded View
| | KSAT's remote ground stations provide an essential link between satellites and imagery. | | | The More the Merrier?
| | A host of competitors arrive on the synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) scene, challenging industry veteran MDA. | | | On Your Mark, Get Set, Go Spatial
| | Imagery and mashups give distant fans a front-row seat at this summer's sporting events. | | | Surrey's Serious Stature
| | Astrium's purchase of SSTL validates the university spin-off's small-satellite focus. | | | Is There an Echo in Here?
| | With Echo myPlace, which combines social networking with 2D mapping and 3D visualization, users can share georeferenced Web content. | | | A New View to Project Management
| | Spatial data managers seeking to eliminate the bottlenecks of paper-based business processes turn to real-time, Web-based communication tools. | | | Driving from the Dashboard
| | Information aggregation tools were very popular at the 2008 Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions Conference, where vendors demonstrated their usefulness for a variety of applications. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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| Iceberg, Right Ahead
| | Humans' innate curiosity and fascination with what lurks within the natural environment around them and beyond them has launched a healthy voyeuristic market of "tours" -- whale watching tours, safari tours, exotic bird tours, mountain gorilla tours. | | | Google Earth's Power of Place
| | Few can dispute that Google Earth has validated the power of place for millions of people across the globe and made them true believers in digital mapping. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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| Oregon's Imagery Portal
| | To facilitate the distribution of statewide imagery datasets, Oregon State University teamed up with a GIS developer to create an imagery distribution and provisioning Web portal. | | | The World at Your Fingertips
| | In the predawn hours, while most Londoners are sound asleep, fixed-wing airplanes equipped with IFSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) methodically fly overhead at 30,000 feet. They traverse the airspace in tight strips, as if they were mowing a lawn. The pilots are not on a covert spy mission. They've been commissioned by Intermap Technologies to collect terrain data as part of a project to map Europe in 3D. And what these planes are doing in the sky can potentially help drivers on the ground save fuel one day -- a result not even Intermap predicted. | | | Iceberg, Right Ahead
| | Humans' innate curiosity and fascination with what lurks within the natural environment around them and beyond them has launched a healthy voyeuristic market of "tours" — whale watching tours, safari tours, exotic bird tours, mountain gorilla tours. | |
| A View from Above
| | From the time Napoleon employed the French balloon corps in the 1798 Egyptian Battle of Aboukir, leaders have understood how the unique view provided by aerial surveillance benefits strategic planning. The Wright Brothers' development of the airplane almost a century ago provided yet another platform from which military planners could view entire battle scenes and inventory enemies' resources. | | | A View from Above
| | From the time Napoleon employed the French balloon corps in the 1798 Egyptian Battle of Aboukir, leaders have understood how the unique view provided by aerial surveillance benefits strategic planning. The Wright Brothers' development of the airplane almost a century ago provided yet another platform from which military planners could view entire battle scenes and inventory enemies' resources. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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| Analyzing Eye Movement During Geospatial Data Inspection
| | A study of human analysts' performance during geospatial data inspection explores the feasibility of gaze tracking as a disambiguation tool in the visual search for a target in high-resolution imagery. | | | Large-Format Imagery Enhances LIDAR Accuracy
| | When the Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD) teamed with Polk County's property appraiser to map more than 2,000 square miles of land, project specifications could not have been more stringent. The key deliverables ? ortho-imagery and digital terrain models (DTMs) ? had to meet the exacting accuracy requirements dictated by the diverse needs of the district, the county, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). What's more, product accuracies had to be verified in accordance with Florida statutes and delivered within the specified time. | | | Determining Orthographic Accuracy
| | In 2002, the Farm Service Agency (FSA) partnered with Minnesota state agencies to develop an updated set of statewide digital orthophoto quadrangles (DOQs). Private companies and government agencies throughout the state had been using U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) DOQs from the early 1990s to create land-cover inventories, and demand for a more current dataset was high. | | | TLC's LIDAR Landbase
| | To resolve issues related to landbase inconsistencies, a consortium of stakeholders in the Tallahassee/Leon County GIS turned to LIDAR to update their topographic database, validating results and accuracies via GPS and conventional surveying. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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| Enhancing the Value of India's Demographic Data
| | The question posed by a commercial provider of integrated geospatial solutions for business applications was this: Will the calculated combination of georeferenced census datasets with satellite-gathered raster data increase the decision-making value of the census data? The answer was a resounding "yes," facilitating the generation of micro-level information from macro-level population data.
| | | Imaging the Ararat Anomaly
| | Since 1973, very high-resolution U.S. spy satellites have hinted that a huge, ship-shaped object obscured by the permanent ice cap on Mt. Ararat in Turkey might be the remains of the biblical Noah's Ark. Unfortunately, its remote, glacial, and cloud-covered location makes imaging and measuring the "Ararat Anomaly" a challenge. However, after 13 years of lobbying the intelligence community to declassify the spy satellite imagery, I submit that commercial imagery, not declassification, is likely to solve this geospatial puzzle. | | | The Science of Synthetic Aperture Radar
| | Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites are lauded for their ability to provide all-weather, day-and-night imaging, an important capability for a variety of end-user applications. The evolution of progressively more advanced SAR sensors has elevated the technology to the point where, today, SAR data form the backbone of many operational programs, including ice mapping, oil monitoring, crop monitoring, ship detection, and surveillance of illegal fisheries. | | | LIDAR Increases Aircraft Approach Precision
| | Students and professors at the Ohio University Avionics Engineering Center (AEC) recently had the opportunity to escape the classroom and participate in a flight test of their proof-of-concept terrain-referenced precision-approach guidance system. This flight test demonstrated for the first time that airborne laser scanners can guide an aircraft during landing in real time, with accuracies on the order of 1 meter. | | | Ground-Based LIDAR in Afghanistan
| | To help rebuild Highway 1 in Afghanistan, the U.S. Agency for International Development) commissioned an innovatieve ground-based LIDAR mapping solution to survey the road. | | | A Sinking Reality
| | For many people, reading or hearing that a particular region is sinking 6, 8, or even 29 millimeters a year would probably not resonate much concern. | | | MORE ARTICLES
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